Baby dies from salt overdose!!!

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Just seen on news about parents in Wiltshire been arrested for killing their baby by overdosing on salt.

Can anyone do a link on this.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3652847.stm

Just found this one is it the same case

here

here

That's awful. I remember reading something like this a few years back, and the parents had been feeding their baby ready brek from a really young age and the same thing happenned.

Cheers you are all fab computer whizzes

Yes, there was another case a few years ago where the baby had been fed instant mash every day and he died

I hav put this on another thread but more people might see it here Just to say remember sodium values on tins and packets should be mutiplied by 2.5 to give salt content - they do not do it because they want their products to seem lower

Northerner, it wasn't Ready Brek - Ready Brek is low in salt. They were giving the baby mash with gravy granules, but I have grave suspicions about that case. They had a child in care after being found to have a face burned on an electric fire.

I think in this case it is being treated as murder, surely? He was a big toddler, the chances of his dying from normally salty food are nil, I'm sure. HOrrible.

Thansk Aloha. Where did I get Ready Brek from then? Must be going mad.

Oh, sorry Northerner, didn't mean to sound like I was 'correcting' you. The original reports DID mention ReadyBrek as the judge went on about it, but the judge was wrong and the people who made Ready Brek were devastated as people just stopped buying it. I looked into this once for something I was writing so found out more and have ever since thought there was much more to that case than appeared at the time.

Wow! I had the Ready Brek firmly in mind too! (and the instant mash and gravy granules).

Sorry to sound niave but surely the baby would not just die but would exhibit certain symptoms that would worry the parents beforehand??

Think maybe education is the key thing here - surely they did not do it deliberately??

Aloha's right - Original Ready Brek has the lowest salt content and is the healthiest overall of more than 20 children's cereals my organisation examined.

Twinkie - I can't think why else they were arrested.

I had Ready Brek in my mind too... it was a few years back, along with mash & gravy.

Wasn't the one a few years ago really young and had been fed Smash or similar from just a few weeks in order to get him to sleep through

Had a panic there, my dd has ready brek every day, glad I read on to find out it is one of the best!!